National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Thomas Lauritsen was a Danish-born American physicist. His research focused on the nuclear spectroscopy of the light nuclei.
Kite worked as a chemist at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
William T. Kelley was drafted in 1942 into the Army and was assigned to the Corps of Engineers’ Manhattan District as part of the counterintelligence element of the project.
William R. Purnell (1886-1955) was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy and served as the Navy liaison on the Military Policy Committee for the Manhattan Project.
